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Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Edit | Post #39446 |
Post edited: this question is so old it didn't have a required tag :-) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281533 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Bootstrapping: who can speak for a community? It's been a while since I asked this question. In the meantime we've launched several communities that weren't transplants from SE, so most of our communities didn't start with "imported moderators". Here's what we're doing for all communities now: When a community is new, the moderation load is... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281527 |
I forgot about this question; thanks for reminding me. We should post an update. Since I asked this, we've started asking communities to nominate people -- when a community first starts the load is low enough that staff can handle any issues that come up, and then the community can choose its initial... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281521 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: A "Super user" like community to include Q&As about software applications usage There's been a lot of discussion here and on other proposals and questions about this idea. We want to launch a general "software users" community where questions about applications, OS settings, cloud-based tools, etc will all be in scope -- the broad approach we also took with Software Development... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #276824 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #276824 |
We'll draw a summary from the top-voted scope answer, something like "community for users of Linux and Unix-like operating systems". That can be tweaked farther, but no point in blocking a popular proposal on a minor thing. Similarly, we can start with the scope that's been discussed here and refin... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281507 |
Post edited: Oops, I meant to cast that as more of a question. Thanks Moshi. |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281507 |
@Moshi fair point, and maybe the meta context is enough. I'm asking, not asserting. :-) As for discussion etc, while those are a different aspect than things like "comments" or "editing", they're still the "original context" of the question rather than a disposition from the staff, so that feels di... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281507 |
@Moshi I worry that it becomes more of a "for those who know" thing at that point. If you know there are status tags, you'll probably figure out what "planned" means. On the other hand, if you're on a databases community where questions could be about query plans, maybe less clear. Or "declined" on a... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281507 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Let's revamp our status tags I agree that distinguishing these kinds of responses from other moderator-only tags would be helpful, and that we don't need to keep doing what we started doing early on when we needed something. The "status-" is part of the name to avoid having only one type of "encoding"; somebody who can't se... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281466 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Disallowing quoting question parts in answers, rather, in comments only Quoting is sometimes necessary for context. Sometimes an answer needs to focus on one part of the question -- one claim, one line of code, etc. Not being able to quote would impede clarity. This doesn't mean we don't want askers to improve their questions. If somebody asks for clarification, yo... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281458 |
@Istiakshovon sorry for the confusion. I wasn't suggesting that you change anything, just taking your suggestion and talking about how we might address it along with a related problem. Feature requests can attract that kind of response sometimes as people think through how the feature might work. ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281438 |
Your English is fine, don't worry! If something's unclear, people can ask about it. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281458 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: Separate question and answer in profile Yeah, we definitely want to improve that aspect of the profile page. We want to allow you to break posts out by type and also by category -- you shouldn't have to dig through all your Q&A posts to find that one article you posted in the "resources" category. Because we can now add new post types,... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281378 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280056 |
@Istiakshovon new users who haven't earned other abilities yet are limited to a few posts a day. The "Participate Everywhere" ability lifts those restrictions and is earned by having enough well-received posts. In principle, if you had that ability and then had a run of poor posts, you could lose it... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281449 |
BTW, the privilege thresholds can be changed for individual communities. We probably should have rolled out lower levels to start with rather than the "mature, active site" levels that we designed for. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281446 |
I find those "in"s suspicious -- "in 10 hours", vs. "4 hours ago" etc (what I see for my read notifications). Hmm... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281443 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
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A: information of codidact Welcome to Codidact. I'm glad you found your way here. In case you haven't seen it yet, The Codidact Vision lays out, at a high level, what we aspire to build. We put community first, and feedback from the community is very important in shaping what we build. We're a very small team currently... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281411 |
The team creates GitHub issues for things raised on Meta (main or per-site). FRs are good to bring up on Meta so the community can discuss them first. Whether you call it a bug or an FR, improving this tooltip doesn't seem controversial, so consider this to be on our radar now. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281407 |
Hasn't been ruled out, for sure. We want an API; we just haven't gotten there. Which means yes, there's opportunity to be involved. I'll defer further elaboration to the devs (I can't say anything about timing). (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281383 |
I have a bunch of rep on Writing from technical-writing questions. People shouldn't assume I have special standing if I answer a question about poetry. In fact, if I thought people would judge all my answers based on my rep, that might push me to *not answer* other questions (that I can also answer... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281378 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Why is there a rep system in Codidact? We didn't set out to have a reputation stat, but because we started by adapting code that had it, we started out that way. When we brought up removing it, a few people objected strongly. (See, for example, this discussion.) We've "nerfed" reputation; unlike on SO, reputation doesn't affect your ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281312 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: What to do about sock puppets in Site Proposals? There is some amount of subjectivity in evaluating proposals, which is not ideal. It's important for us (all, together) to figure out how we can improve our process. Ultimately we probably need to make some software changes to better support proposals, but right now we have those "indicate your int... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280166 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281270 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Add more context in the community ads It looks like this has changed; I just saw this: "Check out this article" I'm inferring that the ad is now sensitive to the type of post being linked; I'd like to confirm that with the developers before marking this status-completed, since I've only got the one data point so far. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281235 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281238 |
This is not the place to discuss the Judaism community. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
@ShashankVM the word "kosher" just means "fit". I've heard many Jews use it in non-religious contexts and do so myself. As for votes, people downvoted because they disagreed with you, which can happen regardless of the topic. There were downvotes on Meta before this announcement and there will be ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
The "easter eggs" I've seen (I think my first was some hidden content on a DVD, not even software) have been extras that you have to seek out and that don't affect anything else. The DVD one led to some deleted scenes, I think, but didn't affect my normal viewing of the movie. Similarly, the hidden g... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
@ShashankVM was the only use of "easter egg" in an answer to one of these questions? I admit I hadn't given the term, which I've heard for years, any deeper thought. Now that you've brought up the religious angle I'll try to be more careful about it. I don't play video games and can't comment on the... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281235 |
Nobody on the Codidact team wants to have fun at others' expense. If there are aspects of the game, or its presence for people who haven't chosen to activate it, that cause problems for those with disabilities or anyone else, we want to know so we can address it. As someone with a disability myself,... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
@ShashankVM re "getting the Q&A back on track", you probably didn't see it if you're not active on the Judaism community, but the "fun" questions were segregated (different category) and only live for a limited period of time. The category description also made it very clear what was going on. Pur... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281248 |
Post edited: response to comments |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281248 |
@ShashankVM I'm having trouble understanding how my invitation for people to help with development if they want to led you to think I'm expressing a requirement. That's not my intention at all, and I'd happily rephrase if it's unclear but I'm a little confused about how to do so. Nobody is required... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281248 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: What are the pros and cons of gamifying Codidact.org? I want to supplement Mithical's answer, with which I agree. Broadly speaking, Codidact has three major pieces, all essential: - its communities, without which none of the rest of this would matter - the platform itself (the code that runs our communities) - the development team, the people who ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281239 |
The opt-in nature is an important aspect. One year SE restyled all their sites to look like those awful Myspace sites from the 90s. (Maybe not SO because they care about that one; don't remember.) It rendered SE completely unusable for people with certain visual disabilities and very annoying for man... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281227 |
@OlinLathrop the tradeoff is between the people doing curation here (who can turn it on) versus those coming from outside who don't know enough to curate yet and are just going to be confused by the SE icons all over the place. I encourage people who are active on the affected communities to turn it... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281233 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: How to ensure that duplicating a post from another website won't cause content duplication that would hurt Codidact's SEO? There are two aspects to copies, license/attribution and duplication. The CC-BY-SA license doesn't require you to include attribution links for your own work. This is why, on communities with imported content, we remove those attribution links when people claim their imported posts -- we no longe... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |